Resonances in Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals: Asymptotic and Hyperasymptotic Analysis
Resonances in Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals: Asymptotic and Hyperasymptotic Analysis
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极端质量比吸气中的共振:渐近和超渐近分析
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2011
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C. Bender
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J. Gair;N. Yunes;C. Bender
An expected source of gravitational waves for future detectors in space is the inspirals of small compact objects into much more massive black holes. These sources have the potential to provide a wealth of information about astronomy and fundamental physics. On short time scales the orbit of the small object is approximately geodesic. Generic geodesics for a Kerr black hole spacetime have a complete set of integrals and can be characterized by three frequencies of the motion. Over the course of an inspiral, a typical system will pass through resonances where two of these frequencies become commensurate. The effect of the resonance will be to alter significantly the rate of inspiral for the duration of the resonance. Understanding the impact of these resonances on gravitational wave phasing is important for the detection of these signals and for the exploitation of the observations for astrophysics and fundamental physics. Two differential equations that might describe the passage of an inspiral through su...